Water, food and poverty: Global- and basin-scale analysis

Water International

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Cook, Simon ^a,b   Fisher, Myles ^c   Tiemann, Tassilo ^d   Vidal, Alain ^e  

^a Challenge Program for Water and Food ^*  (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^d Center for International Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)   (Laos)

^e CGIAR Consortium Office   (France)

Author keywords

Development trajectory; Green water; Water access; Water poverty; Water productivity; Water related hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751681047     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2011.541018     Document Type: Article

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